Re: Sasquatch! Festival 2014

Originally Posted by roboto

Well now we know what happens when you don't have pop acts on a bill . Lineup was so good .

Or schedule a new music festival over the biggest summer vacation weekend of the year, and only six weeks after you held another festival at the same location (which by the way is in the middle of nowhere).

Re: Sasquatch! Festival 2014

I don't think it can solely be blamed on weak headliners. Trying to get a large chunk of your demographic of festival goers to shell out the money for TWO festivals, with the second one being 6 weeks after the first is asking a lot, especially considering how young most of the people who go to Sasquatch are to begin with. Sasquatch hasn't ever been primarily a destination festival, which hurts the chances of weekend 2 being successful on that alone as well.

Re: Sasquatch! Festival 2014

Its just crazy since the capacity is only 25,000 or so, right? You would think that would be an easy number to get to. There were a ton of really good acts on that bill. Hopefully for you guys they will be playing replacement shows in the Pac Northwest. I'm hoping some of those acts make their way down to SF that weekend as well.

I feel bad for Al&Mel, but like others have said there are a ton of fun things to do in Seattle and Portland that weekend. You can do some amazing hikes in the Columbia River Gorge as well.

Well now we know what happens when you don't have pop acts on a bill . Lineup was so good .

Evening shows in the middle of summer is one thing, but spending 3 days in a row in a very hot climate isn't fun. I did an all day festival there in August and it mildly unpleasant. A friend did Rush the first week of July and told it's crazy hot.

Re: Sasquatch! Festival 2014

Organizers really shit the bed on this. Prob won't ever do this festival now. I've heard great things about the location but bad stuff about its organization, food, and camping. Now with this...well... fuck these fucks.

Originally Posted by RandyInHeaven

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Re: Sasquatch! Festival 2014

Originally Posted by captncrzy

Organizers really shit the bed on this. Prob won't ever do this festival now. I've heard great things about the location but bad stuff about its organization, food, and camping. Now with this...well... fuck these fucks.

Lots of cool shows in the area that week and looks like a ton more will be announced in Seattle.

Re: Sasquatch! Festival 2014

Well I'm pretty fucking crushed. I knew sales would not be great for July since a lot of the usual Sasquatch crowd doesn't give a shit about the headliners, but I never expected them to actually cancel it.

Re: Sasquatch! Festival 2014

Originally Posted by davers

Well I'm pretty fucking crushed. I knew sales would not be great for July since a lot of the usual Sasquatch crowd doesn't give a shit about the headliners, but I never expected them to actually cancel it.

I'm really curious how many tickets they actually sold.

I'm curious, too. It just seems like they were asking a LOT of the Sasquatch crowd to want a sizable chunk of them to attend both festivals. If weekend 2 had an act that had a huge pull of people that would travel like...Dave Matthews Band, it might have had more of a chance.

Re: Sasquatch! Festival 2014

Originally Posted by guedita

I'm curious, too. It just seems like they were asking a LOT of the Sasquatch crowd to want a sizable chunk of them to attend both festivals. If weekend 2 had an act that had a huge pull of people that would travel like...Dave Matthews Band, it might have had more of a chance.

Yeah I thought the two weekend thing was a bad idea from the get go since there has never been a huge demand for Sasquatch tickets, save for last year, and that was only because of Mumford and Co.

It seemed like they were trying to appeal to a different demographic than usual with the July lineup, and even though I loved it, it seems like the Sasquatch going public did not.

A baseless rumour was that Prince was supposed to be on the July lineup but dropped last minute. Would have been interesting to see how things played out if that actually happened.

Re: Sasquatch! Festival 2014

Originally Posted by superfan

If it was cancelled, then they would be making their whole idea of two weekends with different line ups just be a complete failure. And it might cost them more to refund and not put the event on at all.

Originally Posted by Bumblebee

It'd be cheaper and easier for Live Natino/Sasq to save face by adding a extra headliner. NIN for instance who has space in the schedule..

LN wouldn't had put the New Order Vancouver pre-sale on today is this were true, only other Northwest gig by them. Ditto Kraftwerk Vancouver, which was put on sale 2 weeks after JulySquatch.